Hispanic (Spanish: hispano, hispánico; Portuguese: hispânico, hispano, Catalan: hispà, hispànic) is an ethnonym that denotes a relationship to Spain or, in some definitions, to ancient Hispania, which comprised the Iberian Peninsula including the modern states of Andorra, Portugal, and Spain and the British Crown Dependency of Gibraltar. Today, organizations in the United States use the term to refer to persons with a historical and cultural relationship either with Spain and Portugal or only with Spain, regardless of race.

Obviously to anyone familiar with the two languages, they are closely related, but the two peoples are not all that similar in either their demeanour or culture. There is a saying in Portugal that neither good winds nor good marriages come from Spain."De Espanha, nem bom vento nem bom casamento."

The dictionary definition of Hispanic is:

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Hispanic |hiˈspanik|
adjective
of or relating to Spain or to Spanish-speaking countries, esp. those of Latin America.
• of or relating to Spanish-speaking people or their culture, esp. in the U.S.

I don't blame the Portuguese for not wanting to be lumped in with the Hispanic population.

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I wouldn't want to be labeled Hispanic either... given the trash that receives that label today. Hispanics are Whites, mostly Spaniards. Hispanics are not those violent brown half-breeds running around lopping peoples' heads off, raping young girls, and dealing drugs.

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Originally Posted by vikingpryde

Spanish and Portugese are completely different languages. Hispanics only speak SPANISH NOT PORTUGESE!

It's insulting enough to try and lump Spaniards with Hispanics - even more so for Purtugese who have an entirely different culture.

I have a different understanding. Hispanics are those whose ancestry is based out of the Iberian Peninsula. Portuguese ARE Hispanic, technically. Not with the butchered label it has become though, where every Mestizo savage is now a "Hispanic".

Yeah due to the sadly overwhelmingly large mixed breed Caribbean islander dwellers the Puerto Rican'ts the domi******s and the mexcrements and even whites will refer to them as "Spanish" and the sad part is that a lot of americans believe these people came from spain and is the homeland of Mexicans. its sad. I bet the Spaniards regret ever colonizing these bastard indian lands of the south Americas and mongrelized there race and heritage into these mixed black/indian peoples.

As far as I know, both the Spanish and Portuguese are Hispanic. Problem is, we confuse Mestizos with Hispanics. The Portuguese are entirely fully blooded white Europeans, but the Hispanics as we know them here in America are no where near white.

Never be ashamed if you have Spanish or Portuguese heritage. Those two countries used to be world powers and were the leaders in exploration and made great empires.

The left always tries to build up pan-Hispanic identity "Hispanic" and pan-African identity "Black/African-American" but they squeal and scream at any notion of pan-European identity "European American" or "White American".

The Census Bureau is planning to categorize people of Portuguese descent as Hispanic, but some Portuguese-Americans don’t like that a bit (h/t Steve Sailer). Evidently the leaders of this group did not try to ascertain opinion among Brazilians or those of Brazilian residing in the United States, even though Brazil has 20 times the population of Portugal.

By the way the list of Portuguese descended Americans who are obviously hugely disadvantaged in life because of their heretofore unacknowledged Hispanic status include the actors Tom Hanks and Keanu Reeves and singers Katy Perry and Steve Perry. Affirmative action to the rescue!

Now that we’re elevating Portuguese-descended people to an affirmative action category, what about Morocco-descended people? Many of them must be descended from Muslims expelled from the Iberian peninsula after the Reconquista of 1492. That unfortunate political decision—one which people would surely not make now—deprived them of an obvious claim to Hispanic status, but they still have a plausible claim to it.

Of course it doesn’t really matter whether the Census Bureau classifies your ethnic group as Hispanic or not, because Hispanic identity is determined by a separate question to which anyone can answer yes. I could claim to be Hispanic because I had great-grandparents who immigrated from Sicily, which was ruled for 300 years by the kings of Spain (that’s about as long as they ruled Mexico). The Hispanic category was invented by the Census Bureau for the 1970 Census and no one has ever been sure exactly who is supposed to be covered. Former Congressman Tony Coelho, who is of Portuguese descent and who represented a district in California’s Central Valley with many Mexican-descended Hispanics, applied for membership in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. He was denied entry. To prove he qualified, he submitted a map of the provinces of the Roman Empire in which “Hispania” covered the whole Iberian peninsula. They let him in. It may have helped that he was chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.